(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State captures half of al-Muhur gas field north west of Palmyra following an Isis offensive on regime strongholds on Friday, activists reported. Isis captured the regime defensive locations of the field which led to regime withdrawal to the other part of the field....

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Six civilians including 5 children were killed by International Coalition bombing targeting Ihtimalat village on Saturday in northern Aleppo countryside. Coordination Committees said regime warplanes raided al-Rashideen neighborhood, Reef al-Muhaniseen area, and Kafar Naha...

Russia's defense ministry said a "regime of calm" truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and parts of Latakia province had been extended "for 72 hours beginning at 1 a.m. on Saturday" (1700 ET on Friday), Syrian state news agency SANA reported. A fragile local truce had been in place for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Torrential rain have hit the countryside of Latakia on Friday morning caused serious destruction for the already worn out tents in the temporary camp of displaced residents who left their villages after controlling them by regime forces with the help...

Turkish soldiers have killed five people in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep as they were trying to cross into Syria to join Islamic State and have detained five others, the provincial governor's office said on Friday. Gaziantep borders the Turkish province of Kilis, which has...

Syrian regime forces on Friday broke into Hama central prison after 5 days of revolt, killing at least two inmates, according to inmates, activists and footage posted online by inmates amid deep concerns of an imminent massacre. Regime troop who have been surrounding the prison since Monday,...

An assailant attempted to shoot a prominent Turkish journalist Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul just before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be announced, a Reuters witness said. The assailant shouted "traitor" before firing at least three shots...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A surprising act of the Syrian regime prevented residents of the countryside of Latakia who left to the city from returning to their villages under its control. The news of dismissing and denying access of people to their villages after leaving them...

Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl launched Thursday its online TV channel in a move seeks to deliver the Syrian news directly from people on the ground to the world in Arabic and English. The newly-born media tribune aims to tell the truth without frills. Islamic State's leaks, Zaman's...

 Air strikes killed at least 28 civilians Thursday in a camp for the displaced in northern Syria near the Turkish border as a 48-hour ceasefire took hold in Aleppo. The truce came after fierce violence in and around Aleppo and was made possible as President Bashar al-Assad's regime and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new round of clashes erupted on Wednesday between Islamic State fighters and Nusra Front in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus left 4 ISIS militants killed, activists said. The skirmishes have intensified in the last few weeks between who once were one...

A double bomb attack Thursday in central Syria killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 40 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. State television also reported dead and wounded in the suicide attack and car bombing in a square in Mukharram al-Fawqani in Homs province.

Turkey's state-run agency says a salvo of rockets has struck southern Turkey, wounding four people. The Anadolu Agency said three rockets struck the Turkish town of Kilis early Thursday. The rockets were fired from ISIS group-controlled territory in Syria, according to the private Dogan News...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has blocked the U.N. aid delivery to the besieged rebel-held areas, including the Eastern Ghouta district and war-ravaged city of Aleppo. The U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that Bashar al-Assad's government had refused U.N. demands to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighting between Islamic State fighters and regiem forces continued for the third day near al-Shaer gas field east of Homs city, as the radical group's accounts reprted killing of 30 regime troops, sources said. The clashes that erupted on Sunday to capture al-Shaer gas field...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Top Syrian military commander in eastern Homs province has been killed in clashes with the Islamic State on Tuesday, local activists said. Brigadier General Qusai ABdul karim Ibrahim, one of the most notorious officers, was killed in a mortar shell targeted his checkpoint...

Syria's government is refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people including many in Aleppo, the city at the center of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday. "We seem to be having new possible besieged...

The United States said on Wednesday it had agreed with Russia to extend a cessation of hostilities agreement to include Aleppo where intense day-long violence between Syrian rebels and government forces killed dozens of people. The State Department said the truce went into effect at 12:01 a.m....

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Dozens of Islamic State fighters were killed and injured in the past two days by the U.S.-led air strikes on the radicals group's strongholds in Markada town in southern countryside of Hasaka province. Activist Malaz al-Yousef said, the International alliance warplanes raided...